Friday, July 29, 2016

In an essay
commemorating the 62nd anniversary of Chavez’s birth, Argentinian author Atilio
Borón says he is convinced the late president was assassinated. Borón claims
that because of his achievements Chávez became “public enemy number 1 for the
Empire.”

“That’s why they
killed him, as is slowly being confirmed by the complex puzzle of evidence supporting
this hypothesis. It won’t be long before we have concrete and definite evidence
of this magnicidio. We know where the
intellectual perpetrators live, we know the motives behind their vile decision,
and we also know that Chavez’s death is inscribed in the long list of popular
leaders assassinated in the five continents by the ‘serial murders’ in
Washington.”

Borón has often subscribed
to the thesis that Chávez was “inoculated” with cancer by his enemies. His own contribution
to the theory is the idea that the CIA has been developing technology to
inoculate cancer cells or to generate heart attacks in its enemies since the 70s
which could be transmitted using a microphone. In an interview in August 2015,
Borón said that “with the technological advances that there have been, I have
no doubt that this people [the CIA] could have developed a vector to generate
cancerogenic processes trough malign cells. (…) A trustworthy scientific source
confessed to me that there are methods for activating radioactive processes of
malign cells contained in a microphone, that could have been placed in front of
the Head of State and that could have been activated by some sort of remote
control to introduce the lethal microscopic particles.”

Monday, July 18, 2016

The hashtag #GuerraNoConvencional
is number one Twitter trending topic today in Venezuela. Among much re-twitted
items are four infographics explaining what the Venezuelan government says is a
non-conventional warfare being waged against the country by its enemies.

The seven phases of
the non-conventional warfare are described in the first infographic. In the
first phase, the resistance (the opposition), with the support of the United
States “conducts the psychological preparation of the population against the
stablished government.” Following phases are conducted by Special Forces of the
United States infiltrated in the country. They train “resistance cadres” which
will conduct the final phases of “minimum combat” (I think they mean guarimba street protest by this.)

The second
infographic explains several aspects and actors of the non-conventional
warfare. “Imperialism” seems to be the dominant figure here. It coordinates
everything form Colombian paramilitaries, infiltrated by “sectors of the
national ultra-right” in order to commit crimes and terrorist actions, to local
scarcity of basic products and sabotage of the electric grid. Included in this
vast conspiracy controlled by the Empire are CNN and the “Bogota-Madrid-Miami
axis.”

Infographics 3 and 4
deal specifically with the economic war. Parasitic business are linked to inflation
and hoarding. Also, fracking and the black market dollar are thrown into the
conspiracy equation. “Venezuela is the victim of a plan to internally sabotage the
production and distribution of regulated food product,” is explained in the last
picture.

These four images summarize
a conspiracy of truly vast proportions, linking local and international actors
of enormous power, capable of producing inflation, scarcity of basic product,
street protests, electric blackouts, and common crime.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

There is only one way,
according to president Maduro, to defeat the economic waged by the Empire and
its local lackeys against Venezuela, by giving almost total powers over the
economy to the military.

“The time has come,
military brothers” said
Maduro yesterday, “the time has come, compatriots, to win the unconventional
war, by using production, work, peace, and the establishment of a new social
and economic order, based on the culture of work and with one objective: solidarity,
coexistence, peace, social happiness, in one word, socialism.”

This new order, explained
the president, “is a virtuous system which will replace the savage and
capitalist chaos imposed by parasitic factors of commercial capitalism, which
have done so much harm to our people and our country.”

To lead in the
construction of this new order, Maduro has
named the Minister of Defense, general Vladimir Padrino López, as the commander
of the new Great Mission for Sovereign and Secure Supply, which will be in
charge of all matters related to production and supply in the country. Padrino
López has been granted powers to make economic decisions in “real time”, and will
respond solely to the also new Presidential Military Command, headed by Maduro.

Friday, July 8, 2016

Former BBC
correspondent in Venezuela, Juan Paullier, was back in the country for some
days last week and decided to only watch the public TV channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).

Paullier was
subjected to a 24 hours fare of conspiracy theorizing. This is part
of his account:

[To watch only VTV] was to wake up in the morning listening
to talks about “induced scarcity” and “non-conventional warfare,” to spend the
afternoon seeing a conspiracy by the international right against the country,
and going to bed with a discourse about an attempt to force a foreign intervention
in Venezuela.(…)

At night the presenters of the program Zurda Konducta
speak of Chavez’s “assassination” by the United States, and of a strategy by
the opposition and business owners to “starve the people to death” and to force
a foreign “invasion.”

You don’t have to be
in Venezuela if you want to try Paullier’s experiment yourself: Watch VTV live via internet.